The primaries have come and gone with all the intrigues and razzmatazz that accompanied them as each of the contending political parties in the forthcoming Gubernatorial Election in Edo State …
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If they want peace, nations must avoid the pin-pricks that precede canon shots – Napoleon Bonaparte This piece examines the correlation between the concepts of Human Rights and Peace; a …
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The arrest and subsequent incarceration of Nnamdi Kanu – founder of Radio Biafra and leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) – by state security operatives some months ago …
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Of late, the Nigerian news media – print and electronic, regular and social – has been awash with information of how the security forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria …
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The rising incidences of violent conflicts around the world, is posing grave challenges to the security establishments of most countries. Clear pointers to the upsurge in this phenomenon are the …
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This piece is a continuation of this column’s series on “Countering Terrorism in Nigeria”. It became expedient in the face of the increasing challenges posed to the security of the …
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The price of liberty is eternal vigilance –Thomas Jefferson. The human family at the dawn of the 21st century is faced with many problems: an increasingly polluted and otherwise threatened …
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Today’s piece re-examines the wider security implications of the arrest of radical Muslim Cleric, Ahmad al-Assir, by Lebanese authorities at the Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport, Lebanon as he attempted …
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What is the real problem with Nigeria? Why is a country so extravagantly endowed so conflict-prone? Why the growing calls in certain quarters for Nigeria’s partitioning along ethnic, religious and …
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“Many shall come in My Name, saying, I am Christ … and many false prophets shall arise and deceive many” (Matthew 24:4-5, 11) The yuletide is my seminal season; that …
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Prelude to the recent bitter exchanges between the Nigerian government and groups agitating for the establishment of a “Sovereign State of Biafra”, this column joined other close security watchers in …
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“Excoriating the corruption epidemic” has become the driving mantra of President Mohammadu Buhari’s administration. The president, true to his pre-election promise to uproot the asphyxiating weed of graft choking the …
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Man has dominated man to his injury – Ecclesiastes 8:9 Man is a social animal who dislikes his fellow man -Eugene Delacroix Today, the 1st of …
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This discourse interrogates the current humanitarian security management systems in the light of the escalating upsurge in the volume of attacks directed at aid workers in the several conflict theaters …
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If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you – Jesus Christ (John 15:20). Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted – …
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In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep – Holy Bible …